1 Raja-raja 2:23

2:23 King Solomon then swore an oath by the Lord, “May God judge me severely, ¹  if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life! ² 

1 Raja-raja 11:23

11:23 God also brought against Solomon ³  another enemy, Rezon son of Eliada who had run away from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah.

1 Raja-raja 13:28

13:28 He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it; ⁴  the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey.

1 Raja-raja 19:2

19:2 Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning, ⁵  “May the gods judge me severely ⁶  if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!” ⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 22:22

22:22 He replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ The Lord ⁸  said, ‘Deceive and overpower him. ⁹  Go out and do as you have proposed.’

[2:23]  ¹ tn Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”

[2:23]  ² tn Heb “if with his life Adonijah has not spoken this word.”

[11:23]  ³ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:28]  ⁴ tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[19:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “saying.”

[19:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”

[19:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “I do not make your life like the life of one of them.”

[22:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:22]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew text has two imperfects connected by וְגַם (vÿgam). These verbs could be translated as specific futures, “you will deceive and also you will prevail,” in which case the Lord is assuring the spirit of success on his mission. However, in a commissioning context (note the following imperatives) such as this, it is more likely that the imperfects are injunctive, in which case one could translate, “Deceive, and also overpower.”